His fellowship finances the project GLONEXACO (The Global-Local Nexus of Armed Conflicts: The interlinkages between natural resource-fuelled armed conflicts and the EU’s raw materials supply). Martijn is a member of the research group “Observatory of European Foreign Policy” in Barcelona and affiliated to the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence at Yale. Furthermore, he participates in the research project EU-IANUS (The EU in an unsettled international system: crisis, polarity and multilateralism).

Martijn’s research has been has been published and presented in major academic conferences. He has been funded by the European Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.